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Eurozone outperforms North America in ESG investing: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... report, which found that ESG investing tended to penalise ESG investors between 2010 and 2013, but rewarded both active and passive ESG investors after 2014. However, the new analysis has uncovered a divergence in performance along ESG criteria between ...

Sustainalytics rates unmanaged ESG risk in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... also explores how investors could potentially integrate ESG data into three equity strategies - high conviction, enhanced passive and a thematic climate change approach. Sustainalytics identifies modern slavery as one of the big thematics in the Australian ...

BlackRock launches unlisted iShares ESG Global Bond Index Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... fixed income securities, particularly in this current low-rate environment, at the same low fee as non-ESG fixed income passive solutions." See Also: Investors have "no place to hide" from climate change impacts: BlackRock Video: Aligning Your Investments ...

MSCI creates Climate Change Indexes tilted to low carbon transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... the underlying index, MSCI said. The indexes can be used as an investment policy benchmark, as an underlying index for passive products such as ETFs, as a benchmark for asset manager performance, and as a "scalable way to engage with companies to improve ...

Climate change, modern slavery on ESG engagement agenda: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... not integrating ESG." This is going to be a challenge, Carlsson-Sweeny noted. "Active managers might find it easier than passive, in some cases," he said. "If you have a large, complex portfolio it becomes more complex. You need to be doing it on a risk ...

Australian funds join international controversial weapons call

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... companies means exposing portfolios to extra tracking error," the letter said. Further, the problem is more acute for passive investors, given that the majority of passive investment strategies replicate exclusion-free indices. Signatories believe that ...

Willis Towers Watson, MSCI launch Adaptive Capped ESG Universal Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... and tilt towards ESG outperformance, Lew said. "We see this as a strategy that may be appropriate for clients looking at passive equity investments, looking to manage passive equity investments particularly," she said. "Clients have come to us to ask ...

Mercer advises Business As Different approach to ESG issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... investment governance framework., and also to have reference to investment beliefs, traditionally around active versus passive, liquidity, fee constraints, etc., but we're working with a lot of boards to articulate what are your investment beliefs are," ...

Taiwan Bureau of Labor Funds selects FTSE4Good for ESG passive mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... Labor Funds (BLF) have selected FTSE4Good's TIP Taiwan ESG index for a US$1.4 billion mandate. BLF has issued a five year passive mandate and is the first fund to use the FTSE4 Good TIP Taiwan ESG index. The FTSE4Good TIP Taiwan ESG Index was launched ...

Demystifying ESG from Investor and Investee Perspectives: Michael Orzano

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... Investee Perspectives: Michael Orzano from The Sustainability Report on Vimeo. The growing intersection of current trends on Passive, Factor and Sustainability driven investing makes a vital contribution to the ability of investors to develop policies ...